merest

Example Sentences

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Before Lamarck, naturalists saw organisms as passive, depending on supernatural intervention for their merest actions as well as their very existence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

She reset to hold, then wrestled back the break, allowing herself the merest of smiles.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

It’s a fig leaf so thin the merest whisper of a breeze wafts it away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

"Lapwood's music was evocative, deploying the organ's entire range, from the merest whisper to stadium-rock pomp at full volume," he wrote.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2023

Another click: a Dorothea Lange portrait of a Dust Bowl woman, her dark hair in a deep part, the merest hint of a smile lifting the corners of her lips.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng